Category Archives: Canada

Vancouver Island university develops program to help kids cope with overdose crisis
NANAIMO, B.C. - Prof. Teri Derksen says an unforgettable image of children playing overdose games in a park became the vision behind a university research project to help kids whose family members hav...
Mar 21, 2018

No rest for the retired: Opioid crisis fills empty nests as grandparents step up
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - She is a Newfoundland woman who worked hard all her adult life to raise a family. Her struggles had just started to ease up with her children grown and she had hoped her 50s m...
Mar 21, 2018

Canadian NASA astronaut heading to the International Space Station
MONTREAL - A NASA astronaut with ties to Canada has blasted off to the International Space Station where he will stay nearly six months. Andrew “Drew” Feustel, who has dual Canada-U.S. cit...
Mar 21, 2018

Just For Laughs sold to Howie Mandel and U.S. company ICM Partners
Montreal’s Just For Laughs answered doubts about its future Wednesday with the company’s sale to an investor group led by Canadian-born comedian Howie Mandel. The new owners, which include...
Mar 21, 2018
Police investigate after two people found dead in burned Springhill, N.S., home
SPRINGHILL, N.S. - Two bodies were recovered from a rural home in northern Nova Scotia after a fire broke out in the basement Tuesday afternoon, the local fire chief says. Firefighters were dispatched...
Mar 21, 2018

Liberals awarded $100,000 contract to man at centre of Facebook data controversy
OTTAWA - Federal Liberals have shared details about a $100,000 pilot project undertaken for their caucus research bureau by the Canadian data scientist who triggered an international uproar with alleg...
Mar 21, 2018

Staffers on Parliament Hill call for closer look at workplace bullying: survey
OTTAWA - The #MeToo movement may have given national prominence to the issue of sexual misconduct on Parliament Hill, but some of the responses to a recent Canadian Press survey suggest bullying and e...
Mar 21, 2018

Liberals told to be careful as feds prepare to consult on plan to combat racism
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are wading carefully into a national dialogue on combating racism and discrimination to ensure a national plan focuses on solutions, instead of sparking a contentious deb...
Mar 21, 2018

No opting out: Canadians to get emergency alerts on their phones soon
TORONTO - Canada’s wireless providers are preparing for a looming update to the National Public Alerting System that will force smartphones to sound an ominous alarm when an emergency alert is t...
Mar 21, 2018

In the news today, March 21
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, March 21 --- LIBERALS TESTED WYLIE PROJECT IN 2016 The Canadian data scientist who admitted to helping political parties score electoral wins by exploiting the p...
Mar 21, 2018